Charlotte Bronte, a Passionate Life - Softcover

Gordon, Lyndall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393314480 ISBN 13: 9780393314489

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996

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Book by Lyndall Gordon

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Reseña del editor:

This highly acclaimed biography looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family, and also at significant people-the active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smith-whom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the "Roe Head Journal," early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte Bronte's life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a woman's point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writer's life and a seemingly incongruous marriage to the devoted curate Arthur Bell Nicholls? Looking into the shadow between the facts, Gordon takes biography into that unseen space where this woman of genius was able to live.

Biografía del autor:

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life and Lives Like Loaded Guns. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN. She lives in Oxford.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393314480
• ISBN 13: 9780393314489
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456